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Title: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: GabrielG54 on May 27, 2005, 08:27:00 am
(because we might as well network, right?)
 
 
 I should be working on PKI certificate authentication services at USDA.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Sir HC on May 27, 2005, 08:36:00 am
Either working with a customer (who is late) about a motor drive/pulse counting IC I did a while back, or reading a 802.11.n dual transceiver specification for a kickoff meeting wednesday.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: SalParadise on May 27, 2005, 08:52:00 am
sitting on the beach of valencia, spain..drinking agua valenciana.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Bombay Chutney on May 27, 2005, 09:17:00 am
I should be swapping out our backup tapes, making sure we have enough to last through the long weekend.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 27, 2005, 09:25:00 am
darn i was hoping to rope sal into starting up a fab  dj night with him myself and brennser... can't think of a clever name at the moment.
 
 other should be really doings include programming KSMO FM or curating Kosmopalloza.  or just thinkg about getting up and deciding where to have brunch.
 
 in the real world, work wise i should be resetting a bunch of user passwords.  but i rather be going back home to avoid the pre holiday beltway madness.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: brennser on May 27, 2005, 09:40:00 am
lots of techies on the board
 
 our report to Congress just went to the printer so I guess I should be figuring out how to assemble the data for my next research project....yawn
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: ratioci nation on May 27, 2005, 09:41:00 am
i should be at work
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: markie on May 27, 2005, 09:45:00 am
I should be subcloning Rar Beta lingand binding domain into a GST vector. At the same time I should be runnning a pretty gel of the protein I made yesterday for its purchasers. I think I need to do a Western of it, too.
 
 Riveting.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: brennser on May 27, 2005, 09:48:00 am
I was very tempted to pull a sickie today (not that I'm implying you did!)
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by general grievous:
  i should be at work
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: ratioci nation on May 27, 2005, 10:03:00 am
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Originally posted by brennser:
  I was very tempted to pull a sickie today (not that I'm implying you did!)
oh i am pulling a sickie! but am actually sick, and am "working from home" as not to get everybody else sick
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Bags on May 27, 2005, 10:08:00 am
So boring...just what I'm doing.  I'm in just the right job for me, which none of y'all would find interesting (electricity regulatory policy development and advocacy).
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: jkeisenh on May 27, 2005, 10:13:00 am
i should be editing and rewriting a fact sheet on nursing home care at a particular chain, and writing the news release to go with it.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: ggw on May 27, 2005, 10:16:00 am
Checking for heteroskedasticity within a multi-factor return model.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: grotty on May 27, 2005, 10:40:00 am
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Checking for heteroskedasticity within a multi-factor return model.
What's the protocol for when you encounter homoskedasticity?
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: GabrielG54 on May 27, 2005, 10:45:00 am
right now i should be coordinating an office trip to 5 guys. mmmmmm burgers.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: ggw on May 27, 2005, 10:58:00 am
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Originally posted by The Artist Formerly Known As grotty:
  What's the protocol for when you encounter homoskedasticity?
We clap our hands and dance around in a circle.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: on May 27, 2005, 11:00:00 am
I don't have luxuries like the internet @ my job.  I'm a lowly worm.  I clean up human feces.  Sometimes I have to look thru the feces carefully to count the peanuts it contains.  No really.  
 
 I know that it may not sound like a very glamorous profession, but I'm rather good at it.
 
 BTW, you misspelled 'should', mister government man...
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Venerable Bede on May 27, 2005, 11:12:00 am
i should be finding the average cost of electricity to commerical, residential and industrial customers in a utility's service area in iowa since 2000.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: GabrielG54 on May 27, 2005, 11:17:00 am
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BTW, you misspelled 'should', mister government man...
your tax dollars cant afford a spellchekc.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Frank Gallagher on May 27, 2005, 11:32:00 am
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Originally posted by GabrielG54:
   
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BTW, you misspelled 'should', mister government man...
your tax dollars cant afford a spellchekc. [/b]
...and it's can't, not cant. A cant is what markie is known as in London.  ;)  
 
 (I'll let the 'spellchekc' go, assuming it was a poor attempt at humour.)
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: GabrielG54 on May 27, 2005, 11:40:00 am
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...and it's can't, not cant.
either im really anal today, or people forgot that this is a messagebaord.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: nkotb on May 27, 2005, 11:50:00 am
What I should be doing: Uploading the latest batch of online coupons to our website and other various end-of-the-month updates.
 
 What I am doing: playing the balls off of some Solitaire.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: SalParadise on May 27, 2005, 11:52:00 am
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  darn i was hoping to rope sal into starting up a fab  dj night with him myself and brennser... can't think of a clever name at the moment.
   
"a brit, a spic and an elitist prick."
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: thirsty moore on May 27, 2005, 11:53:00 am
Writing a user manual for Healthy Athletes Software.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: godsshoeshine on May 27, 2005, 11:58:00 am
either talking on the phone about cars or eating pizza. tough job
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: markie on May 27, 2005, 11:59:00 am
Right now I should be going to lunch with Nkotbaba, but he does not care about me anymore.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: godsshoeshine on May 27, 2005, 12:01:00 pm
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Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
  I don't have luxuries like the internet @ my job.  I'm a lowly worm.  I clean up human feces.  Sometimes I have to look thru the feces carefully to count the peanuts it contains.  No really.  
 
 I know that it may not sound like a very glamorous profession, but I'm rather good at it.
 
 BTW, you misspelled 'should', mister government man...
http://news.com.com/Airport+screeners+could+see+X-rated+X-rays/2100-7348_3-5718163.html (http://news.com.com/Airport+screeners+could+see+X-rated+X-rays/2100-7348_3-5718163.html)
 
 One maker of backscatters is Rapiscan Security Products, a unit of OSI Systems. "Since the Russian plane tragedy, which is suspected due to suicide bombers, the interest has heightened for these needs, especially for the body scanner," Deepak Chopra, the chief executive of OSI Systems, recently told analysts.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: brennser on May 27, 2005, 12:01:00 pm
A BRIT!!!!!!???????   :roll:  
 
 
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Originally posted by SalParadise:
   
Quote
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  darn i was hoping to rope sal into starting up a fab  dj night with him myself and brennser... can't think of a clever name at the moment.
   
"a brit, a spic and an elitist prick." [/b]
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: SalParadise on May 27, 2005, 12:03:00 pm
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Originally posted by brennser:
  A BRIT!!!!!!???????    :roll:  
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by SalParadise:
   
Quote
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  darn i was hoping to rope sal into starting up a fab  dj night with him myself and brennser... can't think of a clever name at the moment.
   
"a brit, a spic and an elitist prick." [/b]
[/b]
hehe, i had a feeling i was wrong on that.
 
 it just rhymed better that way. my apologies!
 
 (umm, paddy is 'irish' right?)
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: brennser on May 27, 2005, 12:06:00 pm
yeah   :)
 
 
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(umm, paddy is 'irish' right?)
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: on May 27, 2005, 12:08:00 pm
Who let the Irish in?
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: markie on May 27, 2005, 12:14:00 pm
No Irish-No Blacks-No Dogs
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Frank Gallagher on May 27, 2005, 12:22:00 pm
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Originally posted by brennser:
  A BRIT!!!!!!???????    ;)  
 
 Which is actually the same as a "paddy" these  days, thanks to this celtic tiger.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: brennser on May 27, 2005, 01:05:00 pm
you got that right - people look down on us emigrants when we visit now - didn;t used to be like that
 
   
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I think you were the "elitist prick" [Wink]
 
 Which is actually the same as a "paddy" these days, thanks to this celtic tiger.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: nkotb on May 27, 2005, 01:07:00 pm
It would appear that way, wouldn't it?
 
 Nah, work is just slaying me lately (not just workload-wise, but also will-to-live-wise).  I'd say next Friday, but I know I'm out of the office.  The following?  Are you going to Kraftwerk?  If so, a round or two are on me for stringing you along.
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
  Right now I should be going to lunch with Nkotbaba, but he does not care about me anymore.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: vansmack on May 27, 2005, 01:42:00 pm
I should be talking about music on a message board, but I'm here instead.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: jd930 on May 27, 2005, 02:00:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
  I should be subcloning Rar Beta lingand binding domain into a GST vector. At the same time I should be runnning a pretty gel of the protein I made yesterday for its purchasers. I think I need to do a Western of it, too.
 
 Riveting.
I too should be working on subclones, but thankfully got positive results for one earlier today. Yay!!! So now just have to set up a bunch of sequencing reactions.  Nice to see another mol bio on the board.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: vansmack on May 27, 2005, 02:09:00 pm
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Originally posted by SalParadise:
  it just rhymed better that way. my apologies!
 
 (umm, paddy is 'irish' right?)
"a mick, a spic, and an elitist prick"
 
 How's that?
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 27, 2005, 02:15:00 pm
i think a cafepress t-shirt is in order for this venture
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Post by: evilsanta on May 27, 2005, 02:16:00 pm
i concur
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: SalParadise on May 27, 2005, 02:18:00 pm
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Originally posted by vansmack:
   
Quote
Originally posted by SalParadise:
  it just rhymed better that way. my apologies!
 
 (umm, paddy is 'irish' right?)
"a mick, a spic, and an elitist prick"
 
 How's that? [/b]
bingo.
 
 cernoch, start drafting up the poster.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: brennser on May 27, 2005, 02:28:00 pm
good one smackie!!
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by vansmack:
   
Quote
Originally posted by SalParadise:
  it just rhymed better that way. my apologies!
 
 (umm, paddy is 'irish' right?)
"a mick, a spic, and an elitist prick"
 
 How's that? [/b]
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 27, 2005, 02:35:00 pm
always fun to put the flyer before the horse...
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: markie on May 27, 2005, 02:35:00 pm
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Originally posted by jd930:
 I too should be working on subclones, but thankfully got positive results for one earlier today. Yay!!! So now just have to set up a bunch of sequencing reactions.  Nice to see another mol bio on the board.
Where are you? NIH?
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on May 27, 2005, 03:00:00 pm
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Originally posted by Bags:
  So boring...just what I'm doing.  I'm in just the right job for me, which none of y'all would find interesting (electricity regulatory policy development and advocacy).
i wrote an article on that a few months back, we work in asia on that issue ...
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: jd930 on May 27, 2005, 03:01:00 pm
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Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
   
Quote
Originally posted by jd930:
 I too should be working on subclones, but thankfully got positive results for one earlier today. Yay!!! So now just have to set up a bunch of sequencing reactions.  Nice to see another mol bio on the board.
Where are you? NIH? [/b]
Nope, small biotech in Gburg and about to head home a tad bit early.  You NIH?? If so, maybe I have done some work for you.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Chip Chanko on May 27, 2005, 03:18:00 pm
I'm editing a show for HGTV.
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Post by: markie on May 27, 2005, 03:22:00 pm
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Originally posted by jd930:
    You NIH?? If so, maybe I have done some work for you.
SNAP! I am at a small biotech in Bethesda.
 
 I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours!
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Post by: vansmack on May 27, 2005, 03:24:00 pm
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Checking for heteroskedasticity within a multi-factor return model.
I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to talk to Bill Thomas about tonight.  Care to switch?
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Bags on May 27, 2005, 03:27:00 pm
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Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
   
Quote
Originally posted by Bags:
  So boring...just what I'm doing.  I'm in just the right job for me, which none of y'all would find interesting (electricity regulatory policy development and advocacy).
i wrote an article on that a few months back, we work in asia on that issue ... [/b]
AED, perhaps?  
 
 [This is kinda fun...]
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Bags on May 27, 2005, 03:28:00 pm
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Originally posted by Chip Chanko:
  I'm editing a show for HGTV.
Never watched anything on this network before.  Started a house hunt in February and am now obsessed!  Best show is "I Want That!"  So utterly American....
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Post by: ggw on May 27, 2005, 03:33:00 pm
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Originally posted by vansmack:
 I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to talk to Bill Thomas about tonight.
Talk to him about how excited you are with his sponsorship of H.R. 2112 - To designate the exclusive economic zone of the United States as the "Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States" (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d109:15:./temp/~bdHxRA:@@@D&summ2=m&)
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: vansmack on May 27, 2005, 03:36:00 pm
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Talk to him about how excited you are with his sponsorship of H.R. 2112
This is going to be such a painful night.....
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: ggw on May 27, 2005, 04:07:00 pm
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Originally posted by vansmack:
   
Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Talk to him about how excited you are with his sponsorship of H.R. 2112
This is going to be such a painful night..... [/b]
Tell him how disappointed you were to find out that House Resolution 2112 was not a bill introduced to honor the immense cultural contributions to North American music of Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, and Alex Lifeson.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Venerable Bede on May 27, 2005, 04:10:00 pm
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Originally posted by vansmack:
   
Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Checking for heteroskedasticity within a multi-factor return model.
I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to talk to Bill Thomas about tonight.  [/b]
talk about the california missions preservation act and making the funding permanent.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Bags on May 27, 2005, 04:13:00 pm
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   
Quote
Originally posted by vansmack:
   
Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Talk to him about how excited you are with his sponsorship of H.R. 2112
This is going to be such a painful night..... [/b]
Tell him how disappointed you were to find out that House Resolution 2112 was not a bill introduced to honor the immense cultural contributions to North American music of Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, and Alex Lifeson. [/b]
ohmigod, ggw, that is PERFECT
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Post by: ratioci nation on May 27, 2005, 04:15:00 pm
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Originally posted by vansmack:
 This is going to be such a painful night.....
Ask him how he got the reputation of being one of the biggest assholes on the hill... I think it would go well
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: ggw on May 27, 2005, 04:20:00 pm
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
   
Quote
Originally posted by vansmack:
 I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to talk to Bill Thomas about tonight.  
talk about the california missions preservation act and making the funding permanent. [/b]
Tell him how important it is to support the House version of the Transportation Equity Act to secure the full $503 million for the Recreation Trails Program (hiking, mtn biking, equestrian).
 
 The Senate version of the bill is particularly hard on California:
 
 * In California, the difference between the House and Senate version is $12 million, enough to build 1,236 miles of new trails
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: vansmack on May 27, 2005, 04:39:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Tell him how disappointed you were to find out that House Resolution 2112 was not a bill introduced to honor the immense cultural contributions to North American music of Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, and Alex Lifeson.
I am ABSOLUTELY going to ask that and hope that his son gets the joke.  If not, Ben Fong-Torres is the MC and he will certainly get it.
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Post by: jd930 on June 01, 2005, 10:33:00 am
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Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
   
Quote
Originally posted by jd930:
    You NIH?? If so, maybe I have done some work for you.
SNAP! I am at a small biotech in Bethesda.
 
 I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours! [/b]
I just tried to send you a private message, but your mailbox is full-up. Drop me a line...
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Post by: jkeisenh on June 01, 2005, 10:46:00 am
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Tell him how important it is to support the House version of the Transportation Equity Act to secure the full $503 million for the Recreation Trails Program (hiking, mtn biking, equestrian).
 
mmm... TEA.  the main reason we can afford to build bike lanes in dc.
 
 God bless Blumenauer (sp).
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: brennser on June 01, 2005, 11:12:00 am
I'll be in Spain in a few weeks Sal - I'll raise a glass for you!
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by SalParadise:
  sitting on the beach of valencia, spain..drinking agua valenciana.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: on June 01, 2005, 02:07:00 pm
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Originally posted by brennser:
  I'll be in Spain in a few weeks Sal - I'll raise a glass for you!
We all know the REAL (http://brennser.esgay.com/) reason for your trip.
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Post by: SalParadise on June 01, 2005, 02:29:00 pm
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Originally posted by brennser:
  I'll be in Spain in a few weeks Sal - I'll raise a glass for you!
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by SalParadise:
  sitting on the beach of valencia, spain..drinking agua valenciana.
[/b]
joder!
 
 enjoy that. i need to get back there soon..
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Jaguär on June 02, 2005, 12:29:00 am
Apparently, I was doing it because I was nowhere near the superhighway while this thread was going strong.
 
 I wish that I had the luxury of being a professional surfer.
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: brennser on June 02, 2005, 08:59:00 am
six and a half thousand posts - pretty impressive for an amateur surfer   :p
Title: Re: What shoudl you REALLY be doing right now?
Post by: Jaguär on June 03, 2005, 02:14:00 am
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Originally posted by brennser:
  six and a half thousand posts - pretty impressive for an amateur surfer    ;)